T-Squared: a Teaching and Technology Podcast

In the second part of their conversation, Jacob and Matt continue their discussion of AI ethics with Dr. Eric Covey from Grand Valley State University's Department of History. To help find a truly international solution for climate change, they enlist the help of ChatGPT itself. Reading through its ideas leads to a conversation about whether large language models actually contain knowledge or...

Jacob and Matt talk with Dr. Eric Covey of Grand Valley State University's Department of History. Compared to many faculty, Eric began talking with his students about generative Ai fairly early in the ChatGPT era. He anchored his discussion not in issues of plagiarism, as many faculty have, but in a discussion about the unseen ethical challenges that generative AI presents. The conversation br...

Jacob Fortman and Matt Roberts introduce the rebooted T-Squared podcast, whose third season will focus on the topic of generative artificial intelligence. In this episode Jacob and Matt set the stage for the rest of the season by talking about ChatGPT and generative AI more broadly. While there's no shortage of news about AI—especially in higher education—Matt and Jacob lay out a plan to move...

On our campus, we're a week deep into the response to the novel coronavirus and COVID-19. As at most schools, faculty have been asked to finish the semester online. Most grasp that this means losing the act of physically meeting in a shared classroom. Given tools like Blackboard Collaborate and Zoom, many faculty are trying to recreate their classes by having students meet virtually during their a...

The T-Squared team returns for the first episode of season 2. In addition to choosing prize winners for the campus' New Faculty Orientation, they discuss what they learned over the summer and what they're looking forward to in the year ahead. Coffee in this episode was personally imported from Italy. Links This episode's coffee: Jump, from Italy's ditta Artigianale The Teaching and Learning with T...

In the final episode of the podcast's first season, Eric and Matt interview presenters and attendees at Grand Valley State University's 18th annual Teaching and Learning with Technology Symposium. Those interviewed are: Kevin Barrons (Seidman College of Business), Lissa Brunan (College of Education, with her students MaKenna Kane and Breanne Dalm), Robert Talbert (Mathematics), Mark Luttenton (Gra...

In this second of two interviews with Grand Valley's Digital Media Developers, we talk with Justin Melick. In his time at Grand Valley, Justin's work has centered around digital video. In addition to helping faculty across the university develop digital videos, Justin has experimented with 360 degree video, and is the designer of Grand Valley's three "lightboards." Links Grand Valley's Lightboard...

In the first of a two episode series, we talk to Grand Valley's Digital Media Developers. Here we have a conversation with Hunter Bridwell. Many of the projects he works on involve virtual or augmented reality. We discuss several of thees projects, including a project for Occupational Therapy that simulates the kind of "visual field cut" that often occurs in patients after they suffer a stroke. We...

Deep deep apologies that it's taken so long for Episode 4 to reach your ears, but it's been a busy autumn around here and podcast post-production took a back burner to other projects. In this episode we get updates on podcast distribution (we're on Anchor and lots of other locations now!), campus usage of Blackboard Ally and Panopto. We talk briefly about our Online and Hybrid Faculty Learning Com...

Topics of conversation for our third episode include the University of Wisconsin's Distance Teaching and Learning Conference, Grand Valley State University's Faculty Badges Initiative, and the Blackboard Ally tool for improving content accessibility. The coffee in this episode is Mzuzu Specialty Coffee, brought to us by hand from Malawi. We also get an update on Mr. Coffee and declare a temporary...

In the second episode of T-Squared, Eric and Matt discuss Oakland University's e-Cornucopia Conference and the Lilly Conferences on College and University Teaching and Learning. Their conversation covers a broad range of topics: accessibility and Universal Design of Learning, hospitality as a metaphor for teaching, and the role of emerging technologies like virtual/augmented reality and smart spea...

In this first ever episode of T-Squared, Eric and Matt discuss the 2018 Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning (MACUL) conference, including Bonnie St. John's keynote focused on failure, grit, and student success. Your hosts drink Kenyan coffee from Blue Bottle and talk about the Grand Valley's Atomic Object Technology Showcase.

Grand Valley State University's eLearning and Emerging Technologies team is pleased to announce T-Square: a podcast about teaching and technology. The first episode of this new podcast about the intersection of teaching and technology will hit the web—and your favorite pod-catcher—in February 2018. Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss a single episode. Music: "Counting in C (Jad Abum...